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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: ftp fails when bash is login shell
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Date: 24 Aug 89 18:46:47 GMT
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   Date: 24 Aug 89 16:25:51 GMT
   From: jes@operations.dccs.upenn.edu  (Joe Smith)
   Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu


   We're having a problem when bash (1.02) is installed as the login
   shell: ftp refuses any logins from a remote system with the message
   'user jes access denied, Login failed' (SunOS 4.0).  Does ftp not
   recognize bash as a valid shell, or did I miss something in the
   installation?

   Hopefully this is just my ignorance again.

   <Joe
   --
    Joe Smith
    University of Pennsylvania                    jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu
    Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics          (215) 898-8348
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059

Edit /etc/shells to include the pathname of the bash binary that you are
using as a login shell.  If /etc/shells does not exist, make it.  Here
is what it looks like on my machine:


----------------------------------------
File: /etc/shells
----------------------------------------
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/usr/gnu/bin/bash
----------------------------------------